In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell pointed to a study showing Canadian ice hockey players lucky enough to be born in the first half of the year thrived, because of a January 1 age cut-off for the league. But Jim Collins and Morten Hansen countered in Great by Choice that the Boston Bruins’ Ray Bourque turned into one of the all-time greats despite being born in December. He used the bad luck to make himself stronger, they wrote.
在《异类》(Outliers)一书中,马尔科姆•格拉德韦尔(Malcolm Gladwell)提到一项研究,该研究表示,在加拿大冰球运动员中,有一些上半年出生的幸运儿,他们的事业蓬勃发展正得益于此,因为北美冰球职业联赛是以1月1日划分年龄的。但吉姆•柯林斯(Jim Collins)与莫滕•汉森(Morten Hansen)在两人合著的《选择卓越》(Great by Choice)一书中却提出了反例:即便出生于12月,波士顿棕熊队(Boston Bruins)的雷•布尔克(Ray Bourque,上图),仍成为了史上最伟大的球员之一。吉姆和莫滕写到,正因出生日期不走运,才令雷•布尔克变得更强。